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Minutes before allegedly stealing a police cruiser in Camden, N.J., Blake Bills and fiancée Shayna Sykes of Macungie tried to carjack a woman, authorities said Wednesday. The young parents, described by police as known heroin users, tried to take the woman's car Tuesday morning, but the doors were locked and they walked away, the Camden County prosecutor's office said while announcing a slew of charges against the couple. When they couldn't get that car, Bills allegedly jumped into an empty Camden police cruiser and drove right at an officer, said Jason Laughlin, spokesman for the prosecutor's office.

A Bethlehem police cruiser and another vehicle were involved in a crash Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities. The crash happened sometime around 3 p.m. at the intersection of E. Market and High streets. Bethlehem police Chief Jason Schiffer said the officer involved is being treated at the hospital for lacerations to his head. According to scanner reports, the other driver is a 78-year-old woman who complained of pain in her arm and knee. Police are still investigating the crash.

A 22-year-old man allegedly snatched two $20 bills from a woman in Allentown Thursday night but was quickly arrested when the victim flagged down a passing police cruiser, according to court records. Richard Leo Stoudt, of Allentown, allegedly asked the victim for a cigarette and took the money, which she had been holding in her hand, according to court records. According to a criminal complaint: A man and woman flagged down the police cruiser going south on Seventh Street around 7:38 p.m. Thursday.

An 88-year-old woman on Saturday rammed her car into a state police cruiser that was parked on Kings Highway in Lynn Township, police said. The impact caused her vehicle to tilt onto two wheels before it slammed back down onto all four and she continued driving into a cornfield in Lynn Township, according to state police at Fogelsville. Catherine L. Kistler of Kempton suffered minor injuries in the 4:27 p.m. crash. A state trooper, Christian E. Bleiler, 28, also was injured, police said.

Allentown police say they are investigating two shootings and a stabbing that happened about three hours apart from each other Thursday night, police said. None of the victims suffered life-threatening wounds, police said. The crimes do not appear to be related. One man was shot in a drive-by shooting and a teenage girl was shot near a park after she refused to talk to a man, police said. In another incident, a man flagged down police to report he had been stabbed and then would not cooperate in the investigation, police said.

Three people were arrested Friday night after they were located in a stolen vehicle involved in an accident with a Quakertown police car. Nikolajs Villafane, 22, who has no permanent address, was driving the vehicle when it crashed into a police cruiser in the area of Saylor Alley about 10:20 p.m. Friday, Quakertown police said. After a brief pursuit, police stopped the vehicle and arrested Villafane and his two passengers, Branden A. Millsip, 21, of 225 Bank St., East Greenville, and Caitlin M. Emann, 27, who has no fixed address.

A Philadelphia man was found with several packages of crack cocaine and heroin in his car during an early Saturday traffic stop for speeding on the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, according to court records. Elijah S. Gamon, 22, allegedly gave a fake name to the trooper during the 1 a.m. stop at mile post 62 in North Whitehall Township and did not have any identification, so the trooper told him he would have to be taken to headquarters to verify his identity, police said.

By JD Malone, Nicole Radzievich" and Pamela Lehman, Of The Morning Call | December 4, 2012

Easton Mayor Sal Panto Jr. decried gun violence Monday as city police investigated the fifth homicide of the year. Paul Murray, 44, of New York City died in the 9:30 p.m. Sunday shooting near Nesquehoning and McKeen streets, Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek said. The killing is the second recent one on the South Side. On Nov. 23, police said 43-year-old Ervin Holton was shot several times and killed on the porch of 147 W. St. Joseph St. That killing happened about a mile away from Sunday's homicide.

As a Bethlehem police officer was conducting a drunken driving investigation Saturday night, police said a group of people refused to leave the area and one assaulted an officer, according to court records. The incident began around 2:30 a.m. in the 200 block of E. Third Street. Police said a man identified as Savier Cintron, 34, of Allentown, pulled out of a parking space and nearly struck a police cruiser. As police were conducting field sobriety tests with Cintron, police said a group of people began forming in the area.